Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-24
NEWs OF THE WEEK..

The Massachusetts Democratic
State Convention nominated 81. B.
Lowering for governor.
The vote in Clarksburg on the
proposition to issue $4,000 worth of
bonds to build water works result
ed in 426 for the proposition and only
63 against it.
A Grant county citizen has made
an offer to furnish ten thousand dol
lars, If the citizens of Piedmont will
raise twenty thousand, to erect a
wooden mill.
The State law governing the kill.
ing of game provides that pheasants
may be killed from October l to
January / !; turkeys from September
Is to January 1, and deer from Sep
TENDER 5 to December 10.
There are fifty.five cigar factories
in Adams county, Pa, the aggregate
number of cigars made during the
month of July having been 2,081 ,625,
and during the same time 2,306, 800
were sold, the sales exceeding the
manufacture by 224,875.
The heirs of the late John Hartell,
of Piedmont, have received the very
agreeable news from Germany that
they are to be the recipients of a
legacy from their grandfather's es.
tate, of $4,000. There are two
sons and one daughter.
Lige Manning, who fell from a
second story window at Point Pleas
ant while in a somnambulistic sleep,
is lying at the point of death, with
no hopes of recovery. He struck
on the back of his head in falling,
and blood was forced from his eyes
and ears.
A little daughter of John Haw-
kins, of Calaix, Marion county, aged
about nine years, fell from a stone
wall, a distance of nine or ten feet,
and in falling she displaced q rock
weighing about $50 pounds, which
fell on one of her limbs, crushing the
thigh. e.-
The Louisville and Nashville rail.
road officials have caused great in
dignation and excitement in Nash.
vile, Tenn, by bringing Pinkerton's
men into the city to influence the
railroad employees in voting on the
100000 subscription to the Tennes.
see Midland railroad.
Isaac Trissley, ex-treasurer OF
Franklin county, Pa, has raised this
year /, 100 bushels of potatoes from
about six acres of new ground, being
an average yield of 200 bushels to
the acre. One potato weighed two
pounds, while a bushel basket was
heaped full with fifty.four of the
tubers.
PARKERsBURG, w. VA, Septem.
TENDER 1S.-Tbe Oldest man in the
state, John Yokum, aged one hund.
red and SIX, has just died at his
home at Valley Bend. His faculties
were perfect almost to the last min.
ute, and his health was excellent up to
three days before his death. He
left six children, who are white hair.
ed, wrinkled men and women. JEFF.
ferson, Washington, Randolph and
many other noted men were visitors
at his fathers house.
Miss Amanda, daughter of A. J.
Wickline, of Monongalia county,
was sitting on pile of plank and
leaning against higher pile behind
her, when she felt something pluck
or pull at her dress on one side and
near the waist. Looking to see
what it could be, she saw a large
cOpperhead snake in one of the in
tersects between the planks behind
her. Nothing daunted, she proceed
ed to dispatch the reptile, and then
it was discovered that there was a
brood of young ones. After Staying
the old one, she pulled down the pile
of plank and found and killed twenty
young copperheads. They were all
large enough to show fight, and they
showed it.